IT SME FORUM

About 7 months back a group of Entrepreneurs from Chennai who had a common thread of running their software companies got togehter to form a cohesive group - The IT SME FORUM - as a Strategy to accelerate their individual growth through synergy. Each one of these entrepreneurs are successfully running their software companies fighting individual battles to keep the company up and running, maintain a steady growth rate, increase their customer base, etc.

Running a company in India is not a easy task - it is literally getting pulled in thousands of direction and believe me - A business leader is supposed to concentrate only on Growth - Marketing - Sales. But I have found that typically in the Indian environ, we get pulled into operations and managing to spend some time for the most crucial aspect of the business.

This gave rise to the idea - why not have a platform to share the best practices, to learn how to tackle problems, get a better voice and get a big bandwidth in terms of out reach.

The objectives of the forum are
• To create a platform for better representation and exposure of the best of breed, high technology, high growth SMEs to other market economies
• To combine the individual strength of the members to collectively represent SMEs interests to the Indian Government during IT policy making
• To synergize on approaches to met and resolve common industry, business and/or leading edge technology challenge and
• To network with other SME forums in information technology worldwide for benchmarking, knowledge exchange and global expansion

Vision
The Establishment of a dedicated, strong and powerful organizational structure that has the capability to catalyze rapid synergistic and sustained growth of the footprint of the Indian Information Technology based entrepreneurial companies in the global market

With this in place, the legal entity is getting formed and let me update the happenings in new posts

Joining Hands for Enhanced Success



Comments

maccoy said…
A must have forum for indian companies, as you have rightly said, indian comapnies, management is pulled into many unwanted activities which is not productive.
If the Forum can minimise this and address it is a great work!
July 5, 2007 at 1:29:00 AM PDT
RameshKJ said…
I just came to know about this forum,and I am interested to know more about this forum.

How can I enroll into this forum or how to take the membership?
November 14, 2007 at 1:41:00 AM PST
Mahendra said…
Hello Sarada,

I identify with the objectives of the forum and its a good idea.

Is there a Hyderabad chapter yet ?. We are a startup based in Hyderabad and are very much interested to know more. Can you help me with the contacts ?

My e mail is: mahendra.penumathsa@collabor.com


Best,
Mahendra.
November 14, 2007 at 4:04:00 AM PST
Unknown said…
Hi,

Request details for getting the membership of IT SME FORUM.

Does the forum have a website of its own, for reference purposes.

I would appreciate details being sent to kumar@kailashmedia.com.

Sincerely,
Kumar Parameswaran
Kailash Media Pvt.Ltd.
Hyderabad
November 16, 2007 at 2:20:00 AM PST
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